What are the commonly used fertilizers for home gardening?

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There are two types of commonly used fertilizers:

How to make your own fertilizer

There are two types of fertilizers commonly used for home gardening: organic and inorganic. Organic fertilizers are divided into two types: animal-based and plant-based. Both are slow-acting fertilizers with relatively complete nutrients and long-lasting fertilizer effects. They must be fermented and decomposed before use. Inorganic fertilizers are fertilizers rich in mineral nutrients that are made by chemical synthesis or processed from natural ores.

Commonly used fertilizers include the following two types

(1) Organic fertilizers. Usually divided into animal-based organic fertilizers and plant-based organic fertilizers. Animal-based organic fertilizers include human feces, feathers, hoof horns and bone meal of livestock, fish, meat, and egg waste, etc. Plant-based organic fertilizers include bean cakes and other cake fertilizers, sesame paste residue, weeds, leaves, green manure, Chinese herbal medicine residues, distiller's grains, etc. Both types of fertilizers are slow-acting fertilizers with relatively complete nutrients and long-lasting fertilizer effects. They must be fermented and decomposed before use.

(2) Inorganic fertilizer. It is a fertilizer rich in mineral nutrients made by chemical synthesis or processed from natural ores. Nitrogen fertilizers include urea, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, ammonium nitrate, etc. Phosphate fertilizers include superphosphate, phosphate rock powder, etc. Potassium fertilizer includes potassium chloride, potassium sulfate, etc. Chemical fertilizers are fast, but the fertilizer content is simple; they are fertile, but not long-lasting. In addition to phosphate fertilizers, general chemical fertilizers are used as top dressing.

How to make your own fertilizer

In daily life In life, there are many wastes that can be used to make homemade fertilizer:

(1) Soak liquid fertilizer. Use a small jar (or jar) to put waste vegetable leaves, melon and fruit peels, chicken and fish offal, fish scales, waste bones, egg shells and moldy food (peanuts, melon seeds, beans, soy flour*) into it , add water and sprinkle a little trichlorfon, cover tightly, and it can be used after high-temperature fermentation and decomposition. When using, take the supernatant and dilute it with water before use. You can mix the above waste with some old culture soil, add some water, put it into a large plastic bag, tie it tightly and leave it for a period of time, and then use it after fermentation.

(2) Waste composting. Dig a pit at a suitable location, 60 cm to 80 cm deep, put 10 cm of furnace ash on it, and put in rotten vegetable leaves, poultry offal, fish scales, chicken and duck manure, egg shells, meat waste, broken bones, etc. Put it into the pit, sprinkle some pesticides, and cover it with a layer of garden soil about 10 cm thick. Keep the pit moist to promote the composting of the fertilizer. It is best to pile it in autumn and winter. When it is warm and decomposed in spring and there is no odorous gas, it can be mixed into the culture soil as base fertilizer; it can also be sieved through a 4 mm sieve while wet and kneaded into pellets. The fine one can be used as top dressing and the coarse one can be used as fertilizer. base fertilizer.

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